Up
to 120 US military personnel are operating out of two secret drone
bases in Somalia, carrying out attacks on Al-Shabab militants and
working with African Union peacekeepers, a new report has revealed.

2015-07-03 US: Recovery? What recovery? ==========================
The US government released its monthly jobs report for June showing the
unemployment rate falling to a seven-year low. However, analysts say
the picture may be deceiving, as labor participation also dropped to a
38-year-low for those 16 and older.
The June jobs report from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), which is intended to give a snapshot
of the state of the US labor market, shows that the country’s
unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent from 5.5 percent in May, with
American companies adding 223,000 new jobs. However, more people left
the workforce and the percentage of Americans with jobs fell, dropping
to 62.6 percent for those 16 and older.

2015-07-03 WIKILEAKS: US targeted a list of German state high offices ======================
The so-called “Target Office of Primary Interest” list, created by the
NSA for the years 2010-2012, allegedly contains 69 high-ranking German
officials, including current economy minister and Vice-Chancellor Sigmar
Gabriel.
“Today’s publication further demonstrates that the
United States’ economic espionage campaign extends to Germany and to key
European institutions and issues such as
the European Central Bank and the crisis in Greece,” said Julian
Assange, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, in the press-release on Wednesday.
He also claimed that the UK provided assistance to the NSA.

Read more ‘Espionnage Élysée’: WikiLeaks claims NSA spied on Hollande, Sarkozy and Chirac
"Merkel’s chief of staff “made clear that abiding by German law is
indispensable” and that any violations will be pursued", Merkel’s
spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.
“Beyond that, the
cooperation between German and American intelligence services that is
essential for the security of our citizens is burdened by such repeated
incidents,” he added, as cited by the Washington Post.

2015-07-02 Cold War 2.0 - defections? ======================== Egypt, Greece, and now Saudi Arabia? It looks like the US attempts to isolate Russia are having an opposite effect... jz ___________________

This
article originally appeared at OilPrice.comThe news from the recent St.
Petersburg Economic Forum, which took place from June 18 to 20,
inspired a torrent of speculation on the future direction of energy
prices.

2015-07-02 WIKILEAKS: Trade in Services Agreement - Press release =======================
Today, 1500 CEST Wednesday, 1 July 2015, WikiLeaks releases a modern
journalistic holy grail: the secret Core Text for the largest 'trade
deal' in history, the TiSA (Trade In Services Agreement), whose 52
nations together comprise two-thirds of global GDP. The negotiating
parties are the United States, the 28 members of the European Union and
23 other countries, including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia,
Pakistan, Taiwan and Israel.
Today's publication happens the week
before the next TiSA negotiating round that begins on Monday, 6 July.
WikiLeaks is also today publishing the full agenda for next week's
negotiations, which shows that discussions will focus on Financial
Services, Telecommunications and the Movement of Natural Persons.
WikiLeaks is also publishing a previously unpublished Annex text – the
secret TiSA Annex on Government Procurement. The draft Annex aims to
reduce procurement regulation to ensure that TiSA governments will not
favour local services over services supplied by foreign multinationals.
WikiLeaks is also publishing the new negotiating texts for three highly
controversial TiSA annexes: the annexes on the Movement of Natural
Persons, the Domestic Regulation Annex and the Transparency Annex. All
three texts include negotiating positions of each of the participant
countries in the TiSA negotiations, and illustrate developments from
previous versions of the TiSA annexes, also published by WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks has also released 36 pages of our own expert analysis.
While the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP) have become well known in
recent months, the TiSA is the largest component of the United States'
strategic neoliberal 'trade' treaty triumvirate. Together, the three
treaties form not only a new legal order shaped for transnational
corporations, but a new economic "grand enclosure", which excludes China
and all other BRICS countries.
According to statements made in
April by US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, parts of the triumvirate
are "as important" to the US engagement with Asia as "another aircraft
carrier". All three treaties have been subject to stringent criticism
for the lack of transparency and public consultation in their
negotiation processes. TiSA drafts are classified for a period of five
years after the completion of the treaty.
According to NSA
interceptions of French treasurer Jean-Francois Boittin published by
WikiLeaks on Tuesday "Washington is negotiating with every nation that
borders China... so as to 'confront Beijing'."
The TiSA Core Text
shows how this negotiation aims at going beyond the GATS agreement,
substantially further restricting what governments can do in services.
There are far more extensive criteria for commercial firms, including
foreign ones, to force governments to protect their corporate interests.
Changes to scheduling bring more services than GATS under two main
rules regarding commercial businesses working in foreign jurisdictions:
non-discrimination in favour of local companies and market access
abilities to not limit the size and shape of foreign companies in the
market.
The text also shows TiSA expanding the GATS agreement to
include new "disciplines" such as those on domestic regulation,
transparency and eCommerce. TiSA is also of great worry to developing
countries, a number of whom will be bound by this agreement, as it does
not give any of the GATS provisions for them, but instead gives greater
protections for foreign growth into the countries, with protections for
national services far lesser than GATS'.
Today's publication of
the TiSA Core Text adds to WikiLeaks' prior publications of numerous
secret TiSA annexes. The text reveals the ideological and legal
underpinnings of the TiSA, and provides the overarching context for each
of the TiSA annexes.
According to World Bank figures, "services"
comprise 75% of the EU economy and 80% of the US economy. For a typical
developing country like Pakistan, services comprise 53% of its economy.
The TiSA covers the majority of the global economy.
Julian Assange

2015-07-02 GERMANY: A US vassal state? ==========================
PUTIN: "If the German foreign politics continues to serve US interests,
in the future we should directly discuss German affairs with the US."

11-12-10 Where should Occupy go next? Civil Disobedience in the footsteps of Thoreau and Gandhi!http:// www.scribd.com/doc/75348301/12-06-08 Courts and Judges as racketeering enterprises under RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) - key element in the current financial crisishttp://www.scribd.com/doc/96504009/Secede! The US in its current form is simply unmanageable...

What did the experts say?

* דוח סייג לזכויות האדם נכלל בדוח התקופתי של האו"ם לגבי זכויות האדם בישראל (2013), בלוויית ההערה: "חוסר יושרה בכתבים האלקטרוניים של בית המשפט העליון, בתי המשפט המחוזיים, ובתי הדין למוחזקי משמורת בישראל".* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2010 Periodic Review Report regarding Humnan Rights in the United States, with the note: "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California".* The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations was incorporated into the 2013 Periodic Review Report regarding Humnan Rights in Israel, with the note: "lack of integrity of the electronic records of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees courts in Israel."

The United States

* "...it's difficult to find a fraud of this size on the U.S. court system in U.S. history... where you have literally tens of thousands of fraudulent documents filed in tens of thousands of cases." Raymond Brescia, a visiting professor at Yale Law School

* Los Angeles County is"the epicenter of the epidemic of real estate and mortgage fraud."FBI (2004)

* “…judges tried and sentenced a staggering number of people for crimes they did not commit."Prof David Burcham, Loyola Law School, LA (2000)

* “This is conduct associated with the most repressive dictators and police states… and judges must share responsibility when innocent people are convicted.”Prof Erwin Chemerinksy, Irvine Law School (2000)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/239647129/The HRA submission was incorporated into the 2015 HRC Professional Staff Report on the United States with the note: :“HRA NGO recommended restoring the integrity of the IT systems of the courts, under accountability to the Congress, with the goal of making such systems as transparent as possible to the public at large.”

[2] Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission for the 2013 UPR of the State of Israel was incorporated into the UN Human Rights Council Professional Staff Report with the note: "Lack of integrity in the electronic record systems of the Supreme Court, the district courts and the detainees' courts in Israel".

2012-06-04 Human Right Alert's Submission; 2013 UPR of the State of Israel: Integrity, or lack thereof, of the

[3] Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission for the 2010 UPR of the United States was incorporated into the UN Human Rights Council Professional Staff Report with the note: "Corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."

2010-04-19 Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council for the

2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States as incorporated into the UPR staff report:

[1] 10-10-01 United Nations Human Rights Council Records for 2010 Review (UPR) of Human Rights in the United States, where Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated with a note referring to "corruption of the courts and the legal profession and discrimination by law enforcement in California."http://www.scribd.com/doc/38566837/http://www.scribd.com/doc/108663259/